PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts Project and Twilight Music present an evening of world music featuring contemporary acoustic ensemble Dunham Shoe Factory (Anna Patton, Mac Ritchey, Todd Roach, and Dave Haughey), plus Argentine guitarist, singer, and composer Cecilia Zabala with Brazilian pianist Philippe Baden Powell, at Next Stage on Friday, Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m.
Dunham Shoe Factory plays original compositions influenced by world traditions. Combining the clarinet, oud, percussion, and cello, their music draws from myriad styles including Brazilian, Egyptian, jazz, Turkish, classical and Indian music, according to a news release.
Currently based in New England, Patton, Ritchey, Roach and Haughey have performed in a variety of settings locally, nationally, and internationally during the past 25 years. Coming together as Dunham Shoe Factory in 2016, the group created a unique sound by weaving the threads of common experience that exist between the players.
Two of them hold master's degrees in music performance, two of them have studied traditional Arabic and Turkish music, two of them have performed with the Paul Winter Consort, and all have spent time improvising in a variety of settings.
Cecilia Zabala and Philippe Baden Powell's duo project “Fronteras” fuses Zabala's folk-inspired songwriting with Powell's música popular brasileira sensibility.
The pair first met in 1995 in Brazil, where Zabala was studying música popular brasileira and Powell was performing with his father, the Brazilian guitar player and composer Baden Powell. Since releasing their first album in Argentina in 2015, the duo has performed throughout Europe, and now comes to the U.S. for a winter tour.